originally posted by: Ross 54
1.) Icy material ? The known albedo of ice on a solid surface, like glacial ice, runs from 20 to 40 percent.

Sure, if you limit icy material to glacial ice.

Glacial ice on Earth seems to be the best available analog for the sort we might expect to find on Ceres. Its surface is diverse in texture-- from
smooth to somewhat disrupted, and is variably sullied by dust.
Ice on Ceres would be subject to meteoric impacts from space, and sublimation to vapor, as ice is inherently unstable on the asteroid's surface.
These would seem likely to confer on it a variable surface, comparable to glacial ice.

The alternative forms of ice, on sea and ocean, can reflect up to 45 and 70 percent of the light they receive, respectively. The idea of a subsurface
ocean on Ceres is highly speculative, and lacks firm evidence in its favor.
The concept that it reaches the surface of the asteroid, and is covered over with only a thin coat of relatively smooth, clean ice, comparable to sea
ice or ocean ice, is ever more conjectural.

Have we heard anything more from NASA about this? I haven't been able to find anything new. It seems as if the story sort of got pushed under the
rug, and everyone became obessed with the color of some dress and Jihadi John.

originally posted by: MystikMushroom
Have we heard anything more from NASA about this? I haven't been able to find anything new. It seems as if the story sort of got pushed under the
rug, and everyone became obessed with the color of some dress and Jihadi John.

March 6th 2015 is the next release date for information, I have read. Just have to wait and see......

We're going to be told it's some mundane thing such as ice or perhaps a plume from gas.

If it were anything exciting such as alien artifacts, we'd never be told. I don't know why we'd expect anything else. Eventually though with
private space exploration programs taking off in the future it's going to be harder and harder to hide/ignore findings. I just wonder if we'll ever
learn the truth.

There wont be any new pictures until mid-April. This was the plan all along; it is not a form of evasion. Dawn is currently facing the unlit side of
Ceres, and will continue to approach the planet from this direction.
From mid-April, the new images will continue to get clearer and clearer. if the new pictures continue to show the bright spot as a blur, it will be
because it is too small to resolve optically.
If this keeps up long enough, the bright spot would be found to be too small to reflect the amount of light we are seeing from it. At that point it
would have to be conceded that it is a source of light, rather than merely a reflective surface.

Also if you're Well read with Sumerian cuneiform tablet translations....
There is said to have been an inhabited earth like planet named Tiamat that was between. Earth and mars... which... last time Nibru swung through
these parts... smashed it to bits. .. making the rubble we now deem the asteroid belt.

Could Ceres be a (relatively) New outpost used by any of the inhabitants of Tiamat or Nibru ?

Or. .. a more recent black ops space navy earth sourced position used for a more public-directing theatrical effect? (Among other purposes)

Also if you're Well read with Sumerian cuneiform tablet translations....
There is said to have been an inhabited earth like planet named Tiamat that was between. Earth and mars... which... last time Nibru swung through
these parts... smashed it to bits. .. making the rubble we now deem the asteroid belt.

Could Ceres be a (relatively) New outpost used by any of the inhabitants of Tiamat or Nibru ?

Or. .. a more recent black ops space navy earth sourced position used for a more public-directing theatrical effect? (Among other purposes)

You are correct, the Sumerians do have a lot to say about the hollow earth.

Here is a article that discusses the subject of the hollow earth, and how it, the theory, has been sabotaged. Very interesting
read.The Hollow Earth Theory

This article covers not only the Sumerian mythology but many other cultural beliefs around the world. Abzu Hollow Earth

We can not draw conclusions from one or two sources. But when you have a dozen or so, you might start to take notice of what is being said.

The word Nibru actually translates to "Water Crossing", not a planet. That is how I understand it. Nibru, leads to Abzu.

Anyone who takes the time to research the hollow earth theory will eventually stumble upon the internal sun that is claimed to be within the planet.
A shining orb that the world is anchored to.

Its counterpart in Today's science calls it the Iron Core, that may or may not be molten. Again, no one has visited it to confirm this, its only a
theory, just like the hollow earth theory. So, one way or another, all planets have a core, this is not really in the debate. What is debatable, is
the true nature of this core. Is it a molten Iron ball, or is it, a ball of plasma that shines.

In the hollow earth theory, and Sumerian text it states there was a planet in the position of Ceres, Tiamat. The question is, could Ceres be the
remaining core of the planet Tiamat??

To be honest, I just don't know one way or the other, except, we have a unidentified light in the center of a meteor crater on Ceres. If, Ceres is a
planetary core, covered by millions of years of dust and debris, could a meteor punch a hole through the dust to expose, the light????

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